If you haven’t been following the tweet tweets, you might have missed that we’ve been working at WFMU with DJ /ruprture on his Mudd Up! show. The best thing about it is we get to pick a lot of music to play on there. And it reaches all of NYC, its suburbs, and Philly – along with the rest of the world on the station’s forward thinking web site. (What other radio site archives tell you what song is currently playing, and lets you skip to individual songs?) We focus on music with myopic LFO tweeks, endless guitar variants, and a pedantic definition of hip hop. Lol, nah but for real, you’ll find a broad mix of forward thinking electronic beats, regional sounds from around the world, hip hop, dancehall and more. Anyway, this week most of the selections were dug up by Steyels Waer, so below is a stream and here’s a download. (GIF via uchronic.)

Love Joys – One Draw
The Present – Fruity Pedals
Gucci Gucci – (Brey’s I Dead Your Vocals On a Quick One instrumental)
Le1f – Bubbles [Greedhead]
DJ Roc – Flex Juke Mix [exclusive!]
Ness Lee – I am the South ft Coco Jones & Abyss
RL Grime – Treadstone (LOL Boys remix) [WEDIDIT Collective] (vinyl only)
Trilla – Call of Duty
Nazareth – Nebulae (Zak-Matic remix)
Cham – Turn Up (Slackaz Remix)
Le Super Borgou De Parakou – Gandigui
Archie Pelago – Saturn V [exclusive!]
Salieu Suso – Kuruntu Kallafa [Lyrichord World]
Chicha Libre – La Plata (En Mi Carrito de Lata)
Love Joys – All I Can Say

A kora drenched in kaleidoscopic energy glitters like a canopy of stars above the forestry. It evokes a thankfulness for the good fortune of the now (or then), yet is filled with anticipation for what’s next. Woody drums carve a rhythmic tale sturdy as oak while vibrations in the soft fermenting soil foretell epic chapters ahead. When the otherworldly light hits at 2:40 with a touch of trepidation for the unknown, everything makes sense and justice fills the air as the mind moves on. But what is beyond, we will never know, and the source of this wisdom imparted reveals itself in its Earthly form for the final seconds. Arca is a Venezuelan artist living in New York. This track is slated to be released on vinyl by Uno NYC, who recently dropped a free EP of his. (Photo by Heikki Leis.)

At first glance, a hook about cartoons and cereal with lyrics referencing Wile E. Coyote and samples of Bugs Bunny all sounds like adolescent and nostalgic grasps at a childhood never fully outgrown. But given a chance, a description of a trouble-soaked youth unveils itself on this cut. Lamar‘s attempt to rediscover the warm glow of the company of Saturday morning cartoons is as distorted as efforts by candy ravers with teddy bear backpacks and pacifiers. Family members caught up in crime and bullets piercing his window mixed with pangs of childhood comfort make for a murky milk stained by conflicting emotions. It all results in a complex and unique track. (Art by Noa Emberson)

Fantasy Thrilla has got an ear for beats and bass. Whether it be the Manhattan-based artist’s own productions or his carefully curated selections, he keeps it fresh. And his mix for Culture System is more live than a five hour energy drink. So whether you’re trying to build up those guns or back up them buns, Thrilla’s got you. From Munchiton and Jersey Club to nextwave juketronika and stateside heaviness, he keeps it knockin. Tracklist after the jump. (Art by Atelier Olschinsky).

Rizzla – Fine Azz Night
Munchi – Fuck This
Why Be – Go Hard (Nightcall Edit)
Tommy Kid – East Street
Lucid – Drung
Babe Rainbow – Greed (5kinAndBone5 Remix)
Juicy J – Who Da Neighbors (DJ Sliink Remix)
Drake – Headlines (DJ K Millz Remix)
Wale – Bait (DJ 2o1 Remix)
C¥BERGIGA – Drip Sex Funeral
Vybz Kartel – Virginity (Skanky’s 3vybz Remix)
Fatima al Qadiri – How Can I Resist U
Chelley – Took the Night (Quali-Juke-Ton Remix)
zAK-MATIC – Δ $ $
Nicki Minaj – Stupid Hoe (Ben Aqua #jukewerk Remix)
Lisbent – Crack, Come On ((fuck me) Cracked by Craxxxsmurf)

This is some smacked life music. Face that bottle, bump this, and stay fresh music. Young bols outta Jersey, the New Jersey Rebels like to fuck shit up basically. In a haze of treated reality they trade stories about recklessness. You might recognize this beat from Young Zee’s “Drugs”. You know, the one with that crazy video. But it’s a family affair, because Krash from the Rebels is actually Zee’s son. The track came from their new mixtape that dropped this week and features some production by Nadus. (Art by Sebastian Bentler.)

Life asserts it’s dominance as the dashboard crumbles, and a lack of control is embraced. Cocooned in a spiraling satellite orbiting earth’s last day, happy just to have had a chance. Basking in the glow of the navy blue jewel and snow white wisps on one side, soaking up the vibrant glow of humanity’s fire on the other. Flicking through the jpeg album of existence down there, taking the dark side with the bright, feeling both passionately. (Image of the Midwest US with aurora borealis off to the left by NASA.)

Imagine passing a random stoop sale and finding some valuable comic book that a mother is selling for change unwittingly without her son’s knowledge. That’s sort of how we found this song. While trying to download something no longer for sale from a file sharing site, a folder full of Japanese MP3s appeared in our inbox instead. Definitely not the bastardized kuduro that was intended. But gamelan metallophones caught our interest, and it was worth ensuring its intentional use from here on out. Called “Heart of Sword,” this track was masterminded by the Japanese artist Goro Ohmi and featured on an EP never released called Niji Sinden. It’s Halloween music from 1983 that jumps from clasiscal to gamelan to electronic. One of the players featured on the album is named Saptana, a Javanese artist who taught gamelan in Japan during the late 70s and early 80s, according to this study of the music’s life on the island nation. Saptana was also part of one of the first gamelan performance groups in the country, called Lambang Sari. Goro apparently was inspired to write this EP by a comic book of the same name. His interest in animation continued with the anime series Guin Saga, which he wrote and performed the soundtrack for. (Art by Yousef Alshaikh.)

Insanity reaped by dirty drugs and toxic waste provides armies for the wicked with visions of boss status. Scattered attention spans swirl spiraling thoughts that splatter their clips all over animated GIFs. Influence is no longer subconscious, indirect, or passed on through dogma. Cut and paste Kim Jong Ill chops cascade all about the pearly gates of Greek mythology, turning words into stutter rolls, carnival whistles into hypnosis, and radio interference a spiritual medium. Slackaz made this hypeness. (Art by Yousef Alshaikh.)

Life is dangerous but the sun is still on your back. Matter-of-fact street life tales paired with warm rootical riddims. This is Subatomic Sound meets See-I. The track retains much of the original; It relaxes on the same stoop but captures the scene as clouds move, allowing a flood of light. It revels in the little joys like glittering reflections on reverberating surfaces sustained in billowing, smokey delay. The track is a free release from DC’s Fort Knox Recordings and comes just in time for Subatomic’s Sound System tonight with Deep Space at Cielo. It’s the birthday party for the man otherwise know as Emch tonight, so come through and bask in Funktion One sound and toast another year. (Art by Francesco Brunotti.)

Reclined in a leather seat, “Ice” slides over synth fogs that obscure an unknowable deepness below. Depth charge downbeats encase distant bang fills. Subs zero in on sheets of toms. Ice so dry it clouds the mind. Neako prefers that this placeless beat mystify and invites the listener to roll with his mentality. The vocals, featuring Three 6 Mafia’s Juicy J, are more concerned with musicality than substance, consisting of a smooth flow and distortion that matches the rest of the soundscape. The most notable line is, “Time flies when your days are always better than your last, and your joy is in the future and your pain is in the past.” Hailing from Newark, this Taylor Gang affiliate’s latest mixtape The Number 23 [taken offline?] shows a strong ear for beats. This is evidenced by his own production work on cuts like “Ice” and though the selection of others’ music like Flying Lotus and Radiohead. (Image by Aymeric Rouillard.)